Ukraine's top commander said on Thursday he had visited brigades defending the Novopavlivka front in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia has stepped up its assaults.

Until I was 5, I had lived my whole life in Luhansk, Ukraine. Then, in April 2014, Russia invaded Luhansk and another nearby region, Donetsk. Russia declared these eastern Ukrainian areas independent states and renamed them Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic.

Emergency services tackled fires in the Donetsk region We're getting more information now about the damage caused by the Russian drone attack on Ukraine overnight. In Kostiantynivka, in the eastern Donetsk region,

Oleg Magdych was driving supplies to Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donetsk region three years ago, on February 24, 2022. He remembers stopping for gas at 5 a.m. That’s when he heard it: Russian shelling in three different directions.

VER SHOTLIST / NO DIFUNDIR EN ESTADOS UNIDOS NO DIFUNDIR EN AUSTRALIA NO ACCESS FROM CUBA / IRAN / SYRIA / NORTH KOREA / SUDAN / CRIMEA / DONETSK AND LUHANSK REGIONS OF UKRAINE The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above.

Pro-Moscow military bloggers have pinned Russian setbacks in the Donetsk regional city of Toretsk on commanders faking successes to curry favor with the military and political leadership and earn bonuses.

As snow falls in a park in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Natalia fixes Veronika's military hood. They are both Ukrainian soldiers, but a mother is always a mother.

At least 25 people have died in Ukraine in the latest wave of Russian strikes, Ukrainian officials say, as the conflict shows no sign of easing.

"But we have to assume that Russia wants to test the unity of the West." According to Kahl, the precise timing of any potential Russian "testing" of Article 5 depends on the course of its ongoing invasion of Ukraine which,

AT least 14 people have been killed in a brutal overnight blitz in Ukraine as Russia continues to pummel the war-torn nation. More than 35 people were wounded, including five children, and at